Monday, June 22, 2015
Unique touring format for trilogy:
Rona Munro's immense historical trilogy: The James Plays - about the Kings James I, II and III of Scotland - will return to the Festival Theatre in Febru…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:11PMTickets on sale 8.30am, Tue 23 June:
Edinburgh Book Festival 2015 tickets go on sale tomorrow morning with a strong number of theatre-related events in the mix.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:10PMFriday, June 19, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Fury and fear:
The National Theatre of Scotland’s adaptation of Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat has a righteous fury, combined…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:42PMNew play to remember bookshop founders:
James Ley, who helped form the Village Pub Theatre, has won an award to write a new play about LGBT bookshop founders Bob Orr and Sigrid Nieslen.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:35AMThursday, June 18, 2015
Based on Frank Wedekind’s 1891 German play about repressed sexuality and its manifestations, Spring Awakening gets a a surprisingly refreshing production from MGA that mixes 19th century G…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:09PMMonday, June 15, 2015
Venue closure casts shadow over award ceremony
"Different type of working model" needed in the future, says founding director as the Arches dominate the speeches at Sunday's Critics Award f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:18PMPoliticians in Scotland have rallied to support the Arches in Glasgow, which went into administration last week. At First Minister’s Questions at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PMSunday, June 14, 2015
The winners and the critics' citations in full:
The Royal Lyceum dominated the awards at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, held at the Glasgow Tron theatre on Sunday 14 June 2014.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:49PMAll but one Critics' award for Edinburgh companies:
The Royal Lyceum has triumphed at this year's Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, with three productions winning a total of six gongs…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:49PMFriday, June 12, 2015
Premiere of Pulse at NEA:
Guest post by Jackie Kemp
Mairi Campbell’s new show Pulse opens Friday 12 June 2015 at North Edinburgh Arts, telling the story of her musical coming of age …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:44AMClosure devastating for Scottish theatre:
The news that the Arches in Glasgow has gone into receivership and cancelled all future events with immediate effect from Wednesday 10 June 2015 is…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:44AMWednesday, June 10, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Impressive energy:
Accomplished, athletic dancing and clever staging are present and correct in The Car Man. However, it lacks the emotional punc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMGlasgow arts complex the Arches is to go into administration after its operating hours were curtailed last month. The Arches’ board of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AMMonday, June 8, 2015
New members sought for September show:
Hot from its hugely successful three-performance holiday at the King's, Showcase is looking to boost members in time for the next regular Showcase eve…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:07PMTV appearances and shows for youth company:
Edinburgh-based Strange Town youth theatre has a double celebration this week as four of its members appear in the BBC's new drama Stonemouth and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:51PMThursday, June 4, 2015
This year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe features 3,314 productions, up 3.8% on 2014. Comedy and theatre continue to dominate the programme, although the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:42AMWednesday, June 3, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Saucy:
Hugely – if inconsistently – funny, but lacking real dramatic impact, Yer Granny at the King’s is certainly crowd-pleasi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:52PMTuesday, June 2, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Visually stunning:
Opera North's production of Rodger and Hammerstein's Carousel is a curious combination of drama, dance and song that on occasi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:51PMEdinburgh’s Traverse Theatre will feature the European premiere of Lucas Hnath’s The Christians among its 20-strong programme for this year’s fringe. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:37PMFriday, May 29, 2015
✭✭✭✭✩ Showstoppers:
Working the surprise factor to great effect, Showcase rises to the challenges of staging a big choral show on the King's stage with…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:58PMPlaywrights Ross Dunsmore and Martin McCormick have won at the inaugural Scotland Short Play awards. They join Cameron Forbes and Emily Ashton
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:58PMQuarter Century Celebrations:
After 25 years, Showcase is moving down the hill from the Church Hill Theatre for a couple of nights on the big stage of the Kings.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:58AMThursday, May 28, 2015
✭✭✭✭✭ Feisty fighting:
Dolly West's Kitchen tells the tale of war: war between countries, war within families and the personal wars everyone fights. Le…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:38PM✭✭✭✭✩ Head and heart:
Informative, intelligent and packing a considerable emotional punch, Edinburgh People’s Theatre’ world premiere of A …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:26PMHidden Door Festival struggling:
The innovative Hidden Door Festival 2015, which has taken over King's Stable Yards to huge critical acclaim, needs to hike ticket sales to reach its break-e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:53AM✭✭✭✩✩ Honest reflection:
Sexuality, drugs and respect come under the spotlight in Musselburgh youth company Scratch the Surface's semi-devised producti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:32AMGlasgow arts venue the Arches is to appeal against a decision to limit the venue to a midnight licence. The Arches board
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMWednesday, May 27, 2015
Novelist Irvine Welsh, director Dominic Hill and Scots Makar Liz Lochhead are among more than 400 figures from the theatre and arts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMTuesday, May 26, 2015
Dundee Repertory Theatre has appointed Nick Parr as its new chief executive officer, starting in September 2015. He takes over from Philip
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMSunday, May 24, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Noisy experiment:
It's hardly silence in which the Ludens Ensemble perform their three person take on Macbeth, seen in its first work-in-progress…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:45AMSaturday, May 23, 2015
✭✭✩✩✩ Depths hidden:
Dark and vicious, Andy Corelli's take on Gorky's The Lower Depths for Siege Perilous strikes all the right tones at the Hidden Doo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:48PM 
